Pitkin County, CO: Foreclosures, Tax Liens & Distressed Properties

Every ZIP in Pitkin County, Colorado carries a DLRadar distress score assembled from foreclosure, tax, mortgage and lender records. County-level credit and bank headwind reads 72/100 — elevated, a sign of lender stress locally. ZIP-level distress ranges from 17/100 at the top down to 15/100. The county spans 8 scored ZIP codes, averaging 17/100 composite distress.

In its contraction phase, Pitkin County home prices held roughly flat across the last year, at 12/100 phase confidence. As the cycle turns down, days-on-market stretch out which surfaces more motivated sellers.

With Pitkin County at -0.3% YoY (12/100 confidence), discipline beats speed — the distressed-to-retail spread does the work. Its 72/100 lender headwind signals what's coming: expect more lender-driven inventory soon.

By composite, 81611 (17/100), 81612 (17/100), 81615 (17/100), 81642 (17/100), 81654 (17/100), 81656 (17/100) top the county — tap any ZIP to go deeper. Also scored across the county: 81621, 81623.

On the housing-and-income side, Pitkin County's tracked footprint report 5.8% of households below the poverty line, a median age of 49.3, household income averaging about $100,169, above the national median, 25.6% of units sitting vacant, home values averaging roughly $1,177,960, above the US, an owner-occupied share of 56%. Taken together, they shape who sells under pressure and how fast a deal moves.

All in at 17/100 over 8 ZIPs, Pitkin County rewards parcel-by-parcel work and not a county-wide play. Inside DLRadar, each Pitkin County property carries owner, APN and address, a score, the bank behind the note and how fast it should sell.

No county is too small to score: Pitkin County, Colorado runs through the same foreclosure, tax, lien and bank-stress model as every major metro, so Pitkin County's numbers mean exactly what they mean anywhere else in Colorado.

Pitkin County, Colorado is best worked from the top of the score down; blanket outreach across Pitkin County dilutes effort that the ZIP-level numbers would have focused. These Pitkin County numbers come straight from public filings and refresh as new ones post; a missing source produces a blank field, never an estimate.

The ZIP breakdown for Pitkin County leads with 81611 (17/100), 81612 (17/100), 81615 (17/100), 81642 (17/100), 81654 (17/100), 81656 (17/100). DLRadar also scores 81621, 81623 across the county. Because each ZIP is graded on its own foreclosure, tax and lender record, the county's distress is best read code by code rather than as a single number.

DLRadar's composite for Pitkin County blends several independent signals — foreclosure and pre-foreclosure filings, mortgage stress, tax delinquency and liens, and the bank-stress headwind of the lenders operating locally — into one 0–100 score per ZIP, so a market can rank high on one axis and low on another.